Nano-optoelectronic chip structure and method

ABSTRACT

The present invention relates to integrated structures of III-V and Silicon materials for making optoelectronic devices on chip compatible with complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS). As a result, various light generation, detection, switching, modulation, filtering, multiplexing, signal manipulation and beam splitting devices could be fabricated in semiconductor material such as silicon on insulator (SOI) and other material substrate.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims priority from provisional application No.60/958,746 filed on Jul. 9, 2007.

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REFERENCE CITED

Form SB0008a and SB0008b

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Optoelectonic circuit technology that allow for compact photonics layercompatible with standard CMOS circuit fabrication will lead to newgeneration optoelectronic integrated circuit. Integration of morefunctions on a single opto-electronic chip provides the advantage of theeconomy of scale, an increase in performance and reliability. Silicon isan attractive material system to fabricate large scale integratedwaveguide circuits due to the large refractive index contrast. Moreover,these waveguide structures can be fabricated using standard CMOSprocesses (1, 2). For optical fiber coupling multiple approaches hasbeen proposed including surface grating coupling (3).

For signal modulation, the prior art work was limited to either a singlePIN diode of a single gate MOS structure which require the trade betweenresponse speed and efficiency. For example, horizontal PIN diode onsilicon like the one on U.S. Pat. No. 6,999,670 and U.S. Pat. No.7,010,208 suffer from slow speed because of the long gap on thehorizontal direction of the waveguide. Vertical PIN provides fasterresponse due to the short vertical gap of the rectangular waveguide withshort vertical direction but only single PIN has been explored Forparticular photonic functions like light generation detection,amplification and signal processing, the InP/InGaAsP material systemremains the material of choice, despite significant research in Siliconbased active opto-electronic devices Propose approaches on references(4, 5, 6, 7) use wafer glowing with polymer material PCB or waferbonding and both approaches have issues of reliability and have not beenable to address the issues of thermal management. The PCB waferattachment approach suffer from the fact that the polymer layer is fewmicron thick and the integration between function in the device is weakand the processes is not repeatable and reliable as required for theseapplication. The wafer bonding approach is a long process that poses amajor bottleneck in the fabrication with a very low yield, so far notsatisfying the performance and reliability requirement. Santa BarbaraUniversity proposed wafer bonding of silicon to III-V material where theoptical mode propagate at the interface of the bonding (8), this is amajor failure of their approach the interface defect result in high lossand extremely low yield the is worse that the polymer glowing approachproposed by the MEC institute (4).

Prior Art has not been able to provide adequate solution tooptoelectronic chip integration so called system in chip (SIC). Theinvention below provides an original approach of integrating multiplematerials on multi-layers structure with very unique and originalapproach that has not been proposed before. This should improve theprocess yield reliability and performance of the optoelectronicintegrated circuit

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to complementary metal oxide semiconductor(CMOS) structures for making optoelectronic devices on chip compatiblewith CMOS process.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to integrated structures of III-V andSilicon materials for making optoelectronic devices on chip compatiblewith complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated into and form a partof the disclosure, illustrate embodiments of devices fabricated by theinvention and, together with the description, serve to explain theprinciples of the invention. Drawing are not to scale, has beenexaggerated to facilitate understanding of the drawings.

FIG. 1: Perspective view of a novel integrated III-V and Siliconmaterial structure in accordance with the present invention.

FIG. 2: Cross-section view of a novel nano-optoelectronic structure inaccordance with the present invention

FIG. 3: Cross section view of III-V material waveguide structure coupledto silicon waveguide structure in accordance with the present invention

FIG. 4: Cross-section view of the novel integrated III-V and siliconmaterial structure in accordance with the present invention

FIG. 5: Cross section view of III-V material waveguide structure coupledto silicon waveguide structure in accordance with the present invention

FIG. 6: Cross section view of III-V material waveguide structure coupledto silicon waveguide structure in accordance with the present invention.

FIG. 7: Cross section view of Integrated III-V material waveguidestructure, silicon waveguide structure and CMOS electronic structure inaccordance with the present invention

FIG. 8: Cross section view of Integrated III-V material waveguidestructure, silicon waveguide structure and CMOS electronic structure inaccordance with the present invention

FIG. 9: Cross section view of Integrated III-V material waveguidestructure, silicon waveguide structure and CMOS electronic structure inaccordance with the present invention

FIG. 10: Cross section view of Integrated III-V material waveguidestructure, silicon waveguide structure and CMOS electronic structure inaccordance with the present invention

FIG. 11: Perspective view of a novel III-V material waveguide structureand method of fabrication in accordance with the present invention

FIG. 12: Perspective view of a novel III-V material waveguide structureand method of fabrication in accordance with the present invention

FIG. 13: Cross section view of III-V material waveguide structure inaccordance with the present invention

FIG. 14: Cross section view of multi-layers III-V material waveguidestructure with electrodes coupled to material structure in accordancewith the present invention

FIG. 15: Perspective view of another embodiment integration of III-Vmaterial waveguide structure coupled to silicon waveguide structure inaccordance with the present invention

FIG. 16: Cross section view of III-V material waveguide structurecoupled to 3D silicon waveguide structure, in accordance with thepresent invention

FIG. 17: Perspective view of another embodiment integration of III-Vmaterial waveguide structure coupled to silicon waveguide structure inaccordance with the present invention

FIG. 18: Perspective view of another embodiment integration of III-Vmaterial waveguide structure coupled to silicon waveguide structure inaccordance with the present invention

FIG. 19: Integrated III-V material waveguide structure, siliconwaveguide structure and CMOS electronic structure in accordance with thepresent invention

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Other objects and advantages of the present invention will becomeapparent from the following description and accompanying drawings.

Basically the invention involves the fabrication of optoelectronicnano-structures to built components or systems using CMOS compatibleprocess.

The drawings illustrate various optoelectronic nano-structuresfabricated by the present invention. The drawings illustrate a varietyof embodiments of integrated structures of III-V and Silicon materialsfor making optoelectronic devices on chip compatible with CMOS process.Thus, the drawings illustrate a variety of applications for the presentinvention. Reference will now be made in detail to the preferredembodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustratedin the accompanying drawings.

With reference to the accompanying drawings, the present invention willnow be described in detail.

FIG. 1 shows perspective view of a novel heterogeneous materialstructure, the III-V material structure contains PIN multi-layersstructure with quantum wells as shown on section (A). Drawing not toscale to better illustrate sections features. On FIG. 1 sections of theIII-V material are etched/removed and one or more layers ofheterogeneous materials such as poly silicon are deposited; for instancein section (C) the III-V upper layers including quantum well (45) areetched removed and poly si (31) is grown to form a heterogeneous PINstructure with P layer made of poly silicon and N layer on III-Vmaterial or visa versa. In another embodiment of FIG. 1 section (D) thePIN layers of III-V material are removed and multi-layers PIN of polysilicon diode are deposited/gown on the III-V substrate. On section F ofFIG. 1 a poly silicon layer (31) is deposited on the III-V substrate(35) which could be used as a passive routing waveguide which couldinterconnect the PIN structure on multiple sections.

In one embodiment of FIG. 1 section (B) a pair of oxide (30) and polysilicon (31) layers are gown over the III-V PIN structure (A), the oxidelayer, section B could be used as a waveguide routing structure tocouple light form and to the III-V PIN structure underneath it. Thedeposited poly-silicon layers eliminate the need for lengthy and lowyield of wafer bonding process. The process of deposited layerstructures allow for more design flexibility and high yields. The oxidelayer thickness can varies from few nanometers to few hundred ofnanometer depending on the desired waveguide structure. Few nanometeroxide layer or no oxide layer is suitable for the single waveguide corebuilt from sandwiched III-V and silicon layers. In the case ofevanescent coupling between the III-V waveguide and the si waveguide theoxide layer thickness would be around hundreds of nanometers. Thesilicon waveguide is evanescently coupled to the III-V waveguidestructure such as a III-V laser, amplifier etc. The oxide layer can beconstitute of one or more of the following oxide material layers,silicon oxide, silicon nitride or oxy-nitride layers to protect andisolate the III-V and silicon materials.

The heterogeneous PIN structure on section (C) could be used tofabricate high speed modulator, photodiode and many other signalprocessing functions where quantum well is not needed.

FIG. 2 shows a cross section view of a III-V PIN laser diode fromsection A of FIG. 1 side by side with a poly silicon PIN diode fromsection D of FIG. 1. The two section waveguide structures are side byside such that same lithography, etch and metallization steps (37) canbe used to fabricate both waveguide structures. The III-V PIN waveguidestructure could be part of a Fabry Perot (FP) laser cavity of aring/disk cavity, or simply a non resonant gain waveguide section.Drawing is not to scale to better illustrate waveguide features.

FIG. 3 shows a cross section view of another embodiment of a III-V PINdiode from section A of FIG. 1 side by side with a poly silicon PINdiode from section D of FIG. 1 where the waveguides design and metalelectrode configuration (37) is such that it allow for lateralevanescent light coupling between the two PIN waveguide structures. Thetwo section waveguide structures are side by side such that samelithography, etch and metallization steps can be used to fabricate bothwaveguide structures. A poly-silicon waveguide (31) such on section Fcould be also built side by side on the same structure

FIG. 4 shows a cross section view of III-V material PIN waveguidestructure side by side with heterogeneous PIN waveguide structure inaccordance with the present invention. The heterogeneous PIN structurecould be for example constituted of InGaAs intrinsic layer (36), P/Nlayer underneath it (35) and N/P poly silicon layer (31) above it. Theheterogeneous PIN structure on section (C) could be used to fabricatehigh speed modulator, photodiode and many other signal processingfunctions where quantum well is not needed. The heterogeneous PINwaveguide structure can be for example InP/InGaAs/poly silicon, otherIIV material combination suitable for lasers, detector, phase modulatorand electro-absorption modulator are a variation of the proposedstructure. Waveguide device configuration can be ring or disk resonator,Mach-Zhender interferometer, or a single pass waveguide with a varietyof shapes such as spiral or corrugated shapes.

The heterogeneous PIN waveguide structure can be fabricated on multipleways, one of the fabrication approach is to etch the upper cladding (35)and Quantum wells (45) of the III-V material on selective areas anddeposit poly si or other type of silicon such as Amorphous silicon overthe InGaAs layer. In this configuration the same lithography and etchsteps could be used to fabricate the heterogeneous PIN waveguidestructure for example modulator and detector as well as the III-Vwaveguide PIN structure on the III-V areas which are not etched to makelasers and amplifiers. The structure can then be protected withmulti-layers of oxides including silicon nitride. Metal electrodes areused to interconnect PIN structures.

FIG. 5 shows cross section view of another embodiment of a III-Vmaterial waveguide structure in accordance with the present invention.In this configuration poly silicon waveguides are formed on top of III-Vstructure. The configuration could be fabricated as an example bydepositing oxide layer over III-V material and then poly silicon isdeposited over the oxide layer, poly si layer is etched to form siwaveguide structure, for optical waveguide routing.

The structure of FIG. 5 can be further bonded to intermediary substrate,then III-V substrate is removed and III-V PIN waveguide structure isetched and metal contact interconnected. The III-V PIN waveguidestructure can be evanescently coupled to the Poly si waveguide structureon the opposite side to form a three dimensional (3D) waveguidestructure. The III-V PIN could be a laser diode and the poly siwaveguide could be a passive optical coupling waveguide routing bus.

FIG. 6 shows cross section view of another embodiment of a III-Vmaterial waveguide structure in accordance with the present invention.Drawings are not to scale to highlight waveguide features. Thisconfiguration poly silicon waveguide are formed on top of III-Vwaveguide structure.

The configuration could be fabricated as an example by etching III-Vwaveguide structure (35) then deposit at least one oxide layer (30). Theresulting wafer structure is flattened using chemical mechanicalpolishing (CMP) then poly silicon (31) is deposited over the oxidelayer. Poly si layer is etched to form si waveguide structure (31), foroptical waveguide routing.

Furthermore the structure on FIG. 6 could be either bonded to atemporary substrate to remove the main substrate and then solder bondthe structure to a CMOS structure for example, and then remove theintermediary substrate and add punch though holes for metalinterconnect. On other embodiment of this invention metal contact couldbe added to the structure on FIG. 6, and then upside down solder bondedto a CMOS structure, after that the III-V main substrate is removed.Further processing steps depend on the device and function. For example,silicon nitride could be used to hermitically seal the PIN diodes, andheat sink material could be added. Silicon carbide heat sink Pin diodeand provide a transparent lower index cladding to the III-V material.

FIGS. 7, 8, 9 and 10 show a variety of embodiments of integrating III-Vmaterial waveguide structure, silicon waveguide structure and CMOSelectronic structure (60) with metal interconnect (51 and 52) inaccordance with the present invention. The three dimensional structurecould be fabricated with one or more multi-steps process. In oneembodiment, III-V wafer is etched to form a III-V waveguide structure,which is solder bonded to a CMOS structure. Optionally, poly silicon(p-Si) or amorphous silicon (a-Si) waveguides could be added on top ofthe structure. Metal contact (50) could be added to each structure priorto solder bonding or added post solder bonding depending on thepreferred final waveguide structure configuration. Silicon nitride (40)could be used instead of oxide (30) as a passivation isolating claddingto the structure. It's possible to use also silicon carbide as atransparent low index cladding of the III-V/silicon waveguides forefficient heat sink of the PIN structure.

In another embodiment, as an example the structure could be fabricatedby depositing oxide layer followed by poly silicon (p-Si) or amorphoussilicon (a-Si) over III-V material and then p-Si/a-Si layer is etched toform waveguide structure, for optical waveguide routing. The structureis then solder bonded to a CMOS structure and the III-V substrate isreleased and removed to allow for process fabrication of a III-Vwaveguide structure. In another embodiment, the III-V structure isbonded to a temporary substrate to allow for process of III-V substraterelease and fabrication of III-V waveguide structure. The resultingIII-V waveguide structure is then bonded to CMOS structure. The III-VPIN waveguide structure would be evanescently coupled to the p-Si/a-Siwaveguide structure on the opposite side to form a three dimensional(3D) waveguide structure. The poly si waveguide could be a passiveoptical coupling waveguide routing bus. The structure includes a verityof PIN waveguide structures, III-V PIN with Quantum well which could bea laser diode, III-V PIN waveguide structure without quantum well couldbe a modulator or detector, or heterogeneous PIN structure which couldbe a modulator, detector or any desired optical signal processingfunction, as well as a poly silicon PIN diode with can be a modulator orany type of optical signal processor.

Low index transparent heat sink such as PCB or Silicon carbide could bedeposited on top of the laser and modulator diodes to improve heathmanagement. Copper interconnect the PIN diodes could also be designed toimprove heat sink.

FIGS. 11 and 12 depicts two example embodiments of a III-V PIN diodestructure having a distributed feedback Bragg grating (DFB). The DFBconfiguration of this invention requires no III-V re-growth. The gratingis etched on one side and the metal contact electrodes are placed on theopposite side.

The waveguide structure on FIGS. 11 and 12 could be built with multiplemethods of growth and etch. As an illustrative example, structure onFIG. 11 could be built by etching a grating on one side of the III-Vstructure than upside down solder bond the structure to a secondsubstrate then release the III-V substrate after that the III-Vwaveguide structure is etched on the new surface. Further steps of oxidedeposit and metal contact could be added. On a second illustrativeexample structure on FIG. 12 could be built by etching III-V waveguidestructure on one side, bond the structure upside down to a secondsubstrate then release the main III-V substrate, and then etch thegrating Further process steps to protect the waveguide structure such asoxide and silicon nitride layers could be added.

Other varieties of laser cavities with gain section, phase section andBragg section such as Distributed Bragg Grating (DBR) lasers could alsobe made with this original structure.

FIG. 13 depicts a possible PIN's integrated configurations for III-Vmaterial PIN waveguide structure, and as example silicon PIN structureon one comment substrate. As an example, a plurality of PIN-NIP with Nsubstrate, PIN-PIN with N substrate, or PIN-NIP with intrinsic layer andN substrate etc.

FIG. 14 depicts a possible electrode configuration for III-V materialwaveguide structure, which allows for optical evanescent coupling fromboth top and bottom of the III-V material waveguide structure at thesame time it also eliminate the parasite capacitance that can be createdin the configuration of electrodes on top of each others. On FIG. 14 theshape of the electrodes also allow for the electrodes to be placed awayfrom the core optical mode which eliminate the need for thick claddingthat my be required on the case of electrode on top the core waveguideto avoid optical loss from metal. These electrodes can be fabricated bymultiple ways, e.g. by etching one side, bond the structure upside downrelease substrate, and then etch the opposite side and depositelectrodes. Or by growing and etching material structure with multiplesteps growth and etch.

FIG. 15 a shows a disk PIN diode resonator waveguide structure with topelectrode on the center of the disk and the bottom electrode as an outerring around the disk PIN diode. A cross section portion of the disk PINwaveguide resonator is shown on FIG. 15 b. The structure electricalcurrent injection can be optimized with multiple ways, as an example thediode polarity of the disk could be reversed on the center of the disk,because the electrical current is blocked on the center of the disk bythe reversed polarity of the diode, the structure could be seen as adisk for optical signal and a ring for electrical signal.

On another embodiment a tunnel junction (TJ) could be implemented as aring above or under the optical disk to confine the electrical currentinjection to a ring configuration while the optical signal confined by adisk resonator configuration.

FIG. 16 shows across section of a III-V PIN diode disk resonatorwaveguide laser structure with p-Si/a-Si waveguide optical bus coupleron the top of it. The top electrode is on the center of the disk and thebottom electrode as an outer ring around the PIN diode disk. In anotherembodiment, the PIN diode disk structure can be etched from the backside to minimize the required current injection; the resulting structureis a ring resonator waveguide with a disk P/N layer and electrode.

FIG. 17 shows a perspective view of another embodiment of a threedimensional waveguide structure, combining III-V PIN waveguide structure(35) and p-Si/a-Si PIN diode on a ring configuration with electrode.III-V material waveguide structure optically coupled to siliconwaveguide structure in accordance with the present invention, in thisembodiment, example illustrates a PIN diode (39) poly-si modulator 3dimensional waveguide structure integrated with III-V waveguidestructure and poly-si coupler on a 3 dimensional structure.

FIG. 18 shows a perspective view of III-V material waveguide structurecoupled to 3D silicon waveguide structure, in accordance with thepresent invention. Drawing not to scale to better illustrate waveguidefeatures. III-V material waveguide structure coupled to siliconwaveguide structure through an oxide low index gap layer. Thepoly-silicon layer (31) and III-V layer (35) waveguide structure areseparated by oxide (30). The ring filter could be replaced by gratingwaveguide, Mack Zhender interferometer (MZI) etc.

As can be understood by expert on the art any other functions anddevices could be integrated in the same way are covered by thisinvention. The Pin modulator could a ring or an MZI structure and thePIN could operate as forward and or reverse biased device. The waveguideI/O coupler the PIN modulator could be under, above or on the side ofthe modulator.

FIG. 19 shows another embodiment of integrated III-V material waveguidestructure, silicon waveguide structure and CMOS electronic structure(60) with metal interconnect on the top of the structures in accordancewith the present invention.

The optical waveguide structures that could be fabricated based on thisinvention includes and are not limited to electro-optic functions suchas optical signal generation, modulation, amplification switching, andoptical signal manipulation.

It's understood from the above waveguide formation examples that one canalter order or the waveguide formation on poly-silicon and III materialto obtain a variety of 3 dimensional ply silicon and III-V materialwaveguide structure.

One could also etch trenches on III-V material and fill them with polysilicon to define the poly-silicon waveguide structure.As is understood by experts on this art, the Poly si waveguide can bereplaced by any other material with high index close to III-V materialindex, such as amorphous silicon or silicon nitride

The III-V material structure such as laser, modulator or photodiode areinherently hermetically sealed on the chip with silicon nitride layer ondeposition during the chip process fabrication, this eliminate the needfor external hermitic package of the chip. As is understood by expertson this art the laser cavity can have a varieties of configurationincluding single or multiple interconnected rings cavity, disk cavity,distributed feedback Bragg laser cavity (DFB), distributed Braggreflective (DBR) mirrors, or a combination of any of the above etc.

Metal interconnects of the CMOS could be either placed above the CMOSand then the Optical waveguide structure interconnect from the top. Orin another embodiment of tight integration of CMOS and optical waveguidestructure, the optical interconnect is placed on top of the opticalwaveguide structure, in this configuration the CMOS electronics and theoptical waveguide structure are tightly close to each other.

It's also understood by people knowledgeable in this field that one cancombine both poly-si waveguides and crystal silicon waveguide on thesame structures/chip. Poly-si waveguides would be used for short lengthswhere design flexibility is needed and crystal silicon waveguide wouldbe used for lengthy waveguide routing where optical loss need to bereduced.

As is understood by experts on this art the Poly si waveguide can bereplaced by any other material with high index close to III-V materialindex, such as amorphous silicon or silicon nitride. Deposited amorphoussilicon could be annealed to improve the optical quality and reducedefect to be closer to crystal silicon. On the other hand III-V materialcan be substituted by band gap materials which could convert electricalsignal to optical signal or vise versa. Silicon carbide layers can bedeposited for heat sink management on the optoelectronic circuit andsilicon nitride could also be used for insulation and hermitticity.

Usually a thick oxide layer is required to confine the optical mode andprevent optical leakage. However, multiple alternating quarterwavelength thick layers of oxide and silicon could be used to provide amuch better performance for optical isolation and heat dissipation. Theoptical waveguide structure proposed in this invention could beintegrated with both bulk CMOS and Silicon on Insulator (SOI) CMOS.

It's understood by expert on the field that other variations of thisinnovation are considered part of this invention.

1. An optoelectronic circuit comprising: A multi-layers heterogonouspositive-intrinsic-negative (PIN) structure; and one or more of thefollowing structures: III-V material positive-intrinsic-negative (PIN)layers diode structure, poly-silicon-Si/amorphous-silicon PIN diodelayers structure and passive poly-silicon-Si/amorphous-silicon layersstructure on the same substrate.
 2. Claim 1 said multi-layersheterogeneous positive-intrinsic-negative (PIN) structure where the Player made of poly silicon and N layer of III-V material and visa versa.3. Claim 1 where the multi-layers heterogeneous PIN waveguide structurecan be for example InP/InGaAs/poly-silicon.
 4. Claim 1 multi-layersheterogeneous PIN waveguide structure where the metallization electrodesfor the bottom and top layers are away from the waveguide structure atsame level except for the a least one thin layer that provide ohmiccontact between the said top PIN layer and the said top metal electrodewhich is a away from the PIN waveguide structure.
 5. Claim 1 where themulti-layers structure comprising at least PIN layers of III-V material,at least one oxide layer and at least a multi-layers PIN ofpoly/amorphous silicon diodes and at least one silicon carbide layer onthe same substrate.
 6. Claim 1 where the said multi-layers PIN ofpoly/amorphous silicon diodes is a multi-layers of poly/amorphoussilicon waveguides on the same substrate.
 7. Claim 1 where the saidmulti-layers structure comprising PIN layers of III-V material, at leastone oxide layer and at least a multi-layers PIN of poly/amorphoussilicon diodes waveguide structure fabricated with a single mask and oneor more etch steps.
 8. An optoelectronic circuit comprising amulti-layers III-V material PIN diode structure adjacent side by side toa multi-layers PIN of poly/amorphous silicon diode structure and a polysilicon structure on the same substrate.
 9. Claim 8 where saidmulti-layers PIN of III-V material adjacent side by side to said siliconwaveguide structure on the same substrate.
 10. Claim 8 where saidmulti-layers PIN diode has a form of a disk with reversed polarity inthe center of the disk, where the structure behave as an disk opticalresonator and as a ring shape electrical current injection. Where thesaid ring current injection can also be achieved with ring BJT currentconcentration.
 11. Claim 8 where said side by side multi-layers PINstructure is a plurality of PIN-NIP with N substrate, PIN-PIN with Nsubstrate, or PIN-NIP with intrinsic layer and N substrate and visaversa.
 12. Claim 8 where said multi-layers side by side structures aresuch that same lithography, etch and metallization steps can be used tofabricate the waveguide structures of varies multi-layers PIN materials.13. Claim 8 where said multi-layers PIN of III-V material waveguidestructure is such that a Bragg grating structure on one side of the PINlayers, and a waveguide structure and metal electrodes on the oppositeside of the PIN layers structure.
 14. Claim 8 multi-layers PIN of III-Vmaterial waveguide structure where the metallization electrodes for thebottom and top layers are away from the waveguide structure at samelevel except for the a least one thin layer that provide ohmic contactbetween the said top PIN layer and the said top metal electrode which isaway from the PIN waveguide structure.
 15. An optoelectronic structurewhere the semiconductor structure is made of multi-layers structurecomprising at least PIN layers of III-V material, oxide layers, at leasta multi-layers PIN of poly silicon diode and active layer containingCMOS electronics structure and a plurality of multi-layers ofmetallization between said CMOS electronic and multi-layers PINstructure and between CMOS and top metal contact layers, and at leastone silicon carbide layer, and at least one silicon nitride layer. 16.Claim 15 where the said heterogeneous positive-intrinsic-negative (PIN)structure is solder bonded to said CMOS electronics structure
 17. Claim15 where the said PIN layers of III-V material adjacent side by side tosaid silicon waveguide on the same substrate is bonded to a CMOSstructure
 18. Claim 15 where the said multi-layers structure comprisingat least PIN layers of III-V material, oxide layers and at least amulti-layers PIN of poly/amorphous silicon diodes on the same substrateis solder bonded to a CMOS structure.
 19. Claim 15 where the saidmulti-layers PIN of poly/amorphous silicon diodes is a multi-layers ofpoly/amorphous silicon waveguides on the same substrate.
 20. Claim 15where the said multi-layers structure comprising a PIN layers of III-Vmaterial, at least one oxide layer and at least a multi-layers PIN ofpoly silicon diodes waveguide structure fabricated with a single maskand one or more of etch steps.